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Perceiving multicultural Australia: Policy changes and curriculum directions
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Perceiving multicultural Australia: Policy changes and curriculum directions

N. Aveling
Routledge International Handbook of Multicultural Education Research in Asia Pacific, pp.201-211
Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis group
2018

Abstract

As a people, Australians tend to take pride in being a multicultural nation. Given that "almost a quarter (24.6 per cent) of Australia's population was born overseas and 43.1 percent of people have at least one overseas-born parent (with) the United Kingdom the leading country of birth for the overseas-born population" (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011, para. 2 & 3) this is not surprising...

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